Verse IV.56

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.56

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Verse IV.56 Variations

स्वस्यैव पूर्वप्रणिधानयोगान् मरुद्गणानां च शुभानुभावात्
ब्रह्मा यथा भासम् उपैत्य् अयत्नान् निर्माणकायेन तथा स्वयंभूः

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

svasyaiva pūrvapraṇidhānayogān marudgaṇānāṃ ca śubhānubhāvāt
brahmā yathā bhāsam upaity ayatnān nirmāṇakāyena tathā svayaṃbhūḥ

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

།སྔོན་གྱི་རང་ཉིད་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་།
།ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནི་དགེ་བའི་མཐུས།
།ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་པ་འབད་མེད་སྣང་།
།རང་བྱུང་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་དེ་བཞིན་ནོ།

Dege, PHI, 139

Just as, by virtue of his own previous aspiration prayers
And as a result of the virtues of the gods,
Brahmā manifests his appearance without effort,
So does the self-arisen one by means of the nirmāṇakāya.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 447

Par le pouvoir de ses propres souhaits antérieurs

Et celui des actes vertueux des êtres divins, Brahma se manifeste sans effort. De même en est-il Pour les corps d’apparition de celui qui est né de lui-même.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།ཚངས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞིན་{br}ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་པ་ཚངས་པ་ཡི། །གནས་ནས་འཕོ་བ་མེད་བཞིན་དུ། །ལྷ་ཡི་གནས་ནི་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ། །སྣང་བ་འབད་མེད་སྟོན་པ་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་ཐུབ་པའི་ཆོས་སྐུ་ལས། །བསྐྱོད་པ་མེད་པར་ཁམས་ཀུན་ཏུ། །སྐལ་ལྡན་རྣམས་ལ་འབད་མེད་པར། །སྤྲུལ་

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པ་དག་གིས་སྟོན་པར་མཛད། །ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་རྟག་གཞལ་ཡས་ཁང་ནས་མི་གཡོ་འདོད་ཁམས་ཞུགས་པ་དེ། །ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་མཐོང་དེ་མཐོང་དེ་ཡང་ཡུལ་ལ་དགའ་བ་སྤོང་བྱེད་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་བདེ་གཤེགས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ལས་མི་བསྐྱོད་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཀུན་དུ་དེ། །སྐལ་ལྡན་གྱིས་{br}མཐོང་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་དེ་རྟག་ཏུ་དྲི་མ་ཀུན་སེལ་བྱེད། །སྔོན་གྱི་རང་ཉིད་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་། །ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནི་དགེ་བའི་མཐུས། །ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་པ་འབད་མེད་སྣང་། །རང་བྱུང་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་དེ་བཞིན་ནོ།

(4) (J107) [That sūtra also] says that [buddha activity] is like Mahābrahmā.

Just as Brahmā, without moving away

From the abode belonging to Brahmā,

Effortlessly displays his appearance

Everywhere in the sphere of the gods, IV.53

So the sage, without moving away

From the dharmakāya,

Effortlessly displays himself to the suitable (D125b)

Through emanations in all realms. IV.54

Just as Brahmā does not move away from his palace and yet his constant manifestation in the desire realm

Is seen by the gods, with their desire for objects being relinquished through this seeing,

So the Sugata does not move away from the kāya of the genuine dharma and yet is seen by the suitable ones

In all worlds, with their stains always being relinquished in their entirety by this seeing. IV.55

Just as, by virtue of his own previous aspiration prayers

And as a result of the virtues of the gods,

Brahmā manifests his appearance without effort,

So does the self-arisen one by means of the nirmāṇakāya. IV.56

mahābrahmavad iti /

sarvatra devabhavane brāhmyād avicalan padāt /

pratibhāsaṃ yathā brahmā darśayaty aprayatnataḥ // 53 //

tadvan munir anābhogān nirmāṇaiḥ sarvadhātuṣu /

dharmakāyād avicalan bhavyānām eti darśanam // 54 //

yadvad brahmā vimānān na calati satataṃ kāmadhātupraviṣṭaṃ devāḥ paśyanti cainaṃ

viṣayaratiharaṃ darṣanaṃ tac ca teṣām /

tadvad saddharmakāyān na calati sugataḥ sarvalokeṣu cainaṃ bhavyāḥ paśyanti

śaśvatsakalamalaharaṃ darśanaṃ tac ca teṣām // 55 //

svasyaiva pūrvapraṇidhānayogān marudgaṇānāṃ ca śubhānubhāvāt /

brahmā yathā bhāsam upaity ayatnān nirmāṇakāyena tathā svayaṃbhūḥ // 56 //

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nirmāṇakāya - An fully enlightened Buddha is said to have the power to manifest in many forms in order to help the sentient beings. The emanation body of a buddha, as the third of the three bodies of a buddha, refers to the many forms in which a buddha can manifest and which are accessible to ordinary sentient beings. Buddhist scholars present four types of emanation bodies: emanation as supreme being, emanation as rebirth, emanation as artisan and emanation in diverse forms. Skt. निर्माणकाय Tib. སྤྲུལ་སྐུ། Ch. 化身

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sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt. सूत्र Tib. མདོ། Ch. 佛经

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dharmakāya - "Truth body" or "true being" — One of the three bodies of a buddha. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, it often refers to a kind of fundamental principle or the true nature of reality itself. Skt. धर्मकाय Tib. ཆོས་སྐུ་ Ch. 法身

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